Hollow Core Kouros

Hanna Umin

At Love, New York, US

February, 16 — March 16, 2021

Hollow core kouros.

First time I heard I love you, 16, he was bloated glazed over and teenage, depressed, recently unwired jaw diet pepsi drool, cum yellowed on the wall by his bed, said I was the only thing good in his life. Six moldy guinea pigs in an aquarium and a moth problem, they’d push swarm up at you when you pull back the mesh top, I still have a fear. Second time, 17, mattress in an empty living room, he said it to me the night before her funeral. Both times I said thank you.

Highbeam shine on the blue black glass orb eye of that mercy doe the man shot for us.

He was planning a memorial— I didn’t know. We were both too tired. Last time I fell in was so long ago, 6, 7 years maybe, vulture nose small eyes long sigh. Solemn sex by floodlight… it’s been so long, I don’t remember what it is or how it could be. All I can remember, all I know, is that
love, love, love equals death, death, death.

Exhibition view
Hanna Umin, Phaedra, found objects, “toe breaker” marble, wax and shellac finished wood, cast plaster, epoxy clay, card, toilet paper pulp, lentils, the artist’s hair, paraffin, wire, collage, metal leaf, acrylics, oils
Hanna Umin, Phaedra, detail
Hanna Umin, Phaedra, side view
Hanna Umin, Phaedra, side view
Hanna Umin, Orb with Internal Orb and Torus, External Torus and Bolus, artglass weight, found objects, chewed skewers, cast plaster, carved polystyrene, wire, cast paraffin, oils
Hanna Umin, Orb with Internal Orb and Torus, External Torus and Bolus
Hanna Umin, Strigil with Orb, found objects, cardboard, plaster filler, cast plaster, epoxy clay, wire, bio capsule of the artist’s spit, acrylics, metal leaf
Hanna Umin, Strigil with Orb, side view
Hanna Umin, Strigil with Orb, detail
Hanna Umin, Two Orbs, glass ball with laser-engraved solar system, skewers, card and toilet paper pulp, epoxy clay, lentils, paper pulp, wire, acrylics, metal leaf
Hanna Umin, Two Orbs, detail
Hanna Umin, Two Orbs, detail
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, cast paraffin, wire, jewelry chain, oils. Hollow from bottom to top, top to bottom
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, interior view
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, detail
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, side view
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, the kouros
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, detail
Hanna Umin, Hollow Core Kouros, detail
Hanna Umin, Phaedra, detail
Exhibition view
Hanna Umin, Two Figures, forged spoons, wire, epoxy clay, broken glass, metal leaf, shellac, enamel
Hanna Umin, Two Figures, side view